The list of confirmed federal election candidates running in Simcoe-Grey has grown to five.

As of April 9, three other candidates will be on the April 28 ballot with incumbent Terry Dowdall of the Conservative Party of Canada and Bren Munro, representing the Liberal Party of Canada.

Giorgio Mammoliti will stand for the People’s Party of Canada. As a 23-year member of Toronto city council, the media is full of reports of Mammoliti’s antics including stripping off his clothes in protest of a nude beach, proposing to turn Toronto Islands into a red light district, trapping neighbourhood cats, and threatening to tear down social housing in his Jane and Finch neighbourhood, comparing residents to cockroaches.

The Toronto Star called him, “One of the longest-serving and most controversial Toronto politicians, Mammoliti has always been one to offer attention grabbing proposals.”

According to his PPC profile, Mammoliti served as the NDP MPP then went on to sit on North York and Toronto city councils. Mammoliti was also a member of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Executive Committee.

In 2018, Mammoliti moved to Wasaga Beach, where he ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2022. In 2023 he entered the mayoral race during a Toronto by- election and lost.

The People’s Party of Canada led by Maxime Bernier combines “common sense, populism, classical conservatism, and libertarianism.”

According to its website, Bernier formed the PPC in 2018 “after realizing that the Conservative Party of Canada was too intellectually and morally corrupt to reform, having abandoned conservative principles long ago.”

Allan Kuhn is running for the Green Party of Canada. The Angus resident was on the ballot for the last two provincial elections.

Kuhn is a social farmer with a certificate in Organic Agriculture Management. He works for a local non-profit on a five-acrebiodynamic organic market garden that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Little is known about Jasleen Bains, running for the NDP, other than she is listed as the Social Media Officer for the New Democratic Party.

The NDP were also unsuccessful in finding a local candidate for the provincial election in February.

Voting day is April 28.